Evolutionary history of human Plasmodium vivax revealed by genome-wide analyses of related ape parasites.
Evolutionary history of human Plasmodium vivax revealed by genome-wide analyses of related ape parasites.
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1810053115
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发表时间:
2018-09-04
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Hahn BH
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作者:
Loy DE;Plenderleith LJ;Sundararaman SA;Liu W;Gruszczyk J;Chen YJ;Trimboli S;Learn GH;MacLean OA;Morgan ALK;Li Y;Avitto AN;Giles J;Calvignac-Spencer S;Sachse A;Leendertz FH;Speede S;Ayouba A;Peeters M;Rayner JC;Tham WH;Sharp PM;Hahn BH
Chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas harbor close relatives of human Plasmodium vivax, but current knowledge of these parasites is limited to a small number of gene fragments derived almost exclusively from mitochondrial DNA. We compared nearly full-length genomes of ape parasites with a global sample of human P. vivax and tested the function of human and ape P. vivax proteins believed to be important for erythrocyte binding. The results showed that ape parasites are 10-fold more diverse than human P. vivax and exhibit no evidence of species specificity, whereas human P. vivax represents a bottlenecked lineage that emerged from within this parasite group. Thus, African apes represent a large P. vivax reservoir whose impact on human malaria eradication requires careful monitoring. Wild-living African apes are endemically infected with parasites that are closely related to human Plasmodium vivax, a leading cause of malaria outside Africa. This finding suggests that the origin of P. vivax was in Africa, even though the parasite is now rare in humans there. To elucidate the emergence of human P. vivax and its relationship to the ape parasites, we analyzed genome sequence data of P. vivax strains infecting six chimpanzees and one gorilla from Cameroon, Gabon, and Côte d’Ivoire. We found that ape and human parasites share nearly identical core genomes, differing by only 2% of coding sequences. However, compared with the ape parasites, human strains of P. vivax exhibit about 10-fold less diversity and have a relative excess of nonsynonymous nucleotide polymorphisms, with site-frequency spectra suggesting they are subject to greatly relaxed purifying selection. These data suggest that human P. vivax has undergone an extreme bottleneck, followed by rapid population expansion. Investigating potential host-specificity determinants, we found that ape P. vivax parasites encode intact orthologs of three reticulocyte-binding protein genes (rbp2d, rbp2e, and rbp3), which are pseudogenes in all human P. vivax strains. However, binding studies of recombinant RBP2e and RBP3 proteins to human, chimpanzee, and gorilla erythrocytes revealed no evidence of host-specific barriers to red blood cell invasion. These data suggest that, from an ancient stock of P. vivax parasites capable of infecting both humans and apes, a severely bottlenecked lineage emerged out of Africa and underwent rapid population growth as it spread globally.
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3.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
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